auto-flower?

[eye exaggerate]

...so here's one of 2 clones from a plant I've posted about. I don't deny ever having asked 'stupid' questions before, and in light of that...here goes.

18/6 lighting and here's why I'm wondering about their 'auto-flower-ness'. Pistils and offset nodes. They were taken off of the mother when she was 6 weeks. (give or take...) She showed sex way before I thought of switching my timer.

I don't want to make an assumption and I'm hoping someone will be able to help. If I am correct, then I may regret having switched 'ma' to 12/12...?

 

[welshsmoker]

whats the question then mate?

 

[darkdestruction420]

"Pistils and offset nodes"
will appear no matter the lighting cycle when a plant is sexually mature(and is female on the pistils part, males will show male preflowers). Nothing unusual there.

 

[eye exaggerate]

whats the question then mate?

Hehe... Well, first, how to know an auto-flower plant when you see one. And, second, if this plant is mature and showing sex in the clones, what to do for lighting?

 

[eye exaggerate]

"Pistils and offset nodes"
will appear no matter the lighting cycle when a plant is sexually mature(and is female on the pistils part, males will show male preflowers). Nothing unusual there.

...cool. So if the plant matures at 6 weeks and is cloned, how would I handle the lighting on the clones? Less yield if I put them on a 12/12, this much I know.

 

[blimey]

You don't clone autoflowers. Those clones are as mature as the mother plant and they are not going to stop maturing.

 

[eye exaggerate]

You don't clone autoflowers. Those clones are as mature as the mother plant and they are not going to stop maturing.

...here's one of the reasons I'm asking. The 2 previous that I've grown, I pre-flowered to check the sex of the plant. This one acted quite differently which made me wonder about auto-flower. I had read about not cloning them, not changing lights etc... I'm trying to better my knowledge for next time this happens.

*and, wouldn't 18/6 continue a vegetive phase?

 

[blimey]

No. Autoflowers mature according to age not light cycles. The point of autoflowers is that they automatically flower in 18/6 lighting.

And it's not in veg, it's probably about 3 weeks into flowering.

 

[eye exaggerate]

No. Autoflowers mature according to age not light cycles. The point of autoflowers is that they automatically flower in 18/6 lighting.

And it's not in veg, it's probably about 3 weeks into flowering.

...thanks blimey.

*reading your journal - I'm in a 400w situation as well.

 

[darkdestruction420]

that is not an autoflower. I dont know where blimey got that from. i'll be back after work to discuss what you should do more.

 

[blimey]

My bad I assumed it was an autoflower because it said it in the title. I guess you were wondering if it was or not.

 

[racerboy71]

the reason it has preflowers and alternating nodes is that the clone is technically the same exact age as the mother plant that it was taken from... so if you say the mother was six weeks old then your clone is also technically six weeks old as well, hence why it has preflowers and alternating nodes...
nothing at all wrong with this... and just treat you're clones as you would normally, meaning give them either 18 / 6 light schedule or flower them w/e you want... the bigger the clones grow first before flowering, the bigger you will yield at the end of the day..

 

[darkdestruction420]

the reason it has preflowers and alternating nodes is that the clone is technically the same exact age as the mother plant that it was taken from... so if you say the mother was six weeks old then your clone is also technically six weeks old as well, hence why it has preflowers and alternating nodes...
nothing at all wrong with this... and just treat you're clones as you would normally, meaning give them either 18 / 6 light schedule or flower them w/e you want... the bigger the clones grow first before flowering, the bigger you will yield at the end of the day..

damn you racerboy, always gotta beat me to the punch and show me up....lol....

 

[welshsmoker]

My bad I assumed it was an autoflower because it said it in the title. I guess you were wondering if it was or not.

thats what i thought, still havent had the question?

 

[racerboy71]

damn you racerboy, always gotta beat me to the punch and show me up....lol....

well i saw that you were busy at work, and since i still don't have a job, i thought i'd help out, lol..

 

[eye exaggerate]

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